Worry once kept us alive. Now it is slowly killing us. Source: Wellness Is an Effort

Society often avoids conflict, which only serves to magnify and perpetuate it. Source: Carpe Discordia: Seize the Conflict

A new systematic review categorizes microaggressions and their consequences: The Detrimental Effects of Microaggressions

Knowing the best answer is tough, but several strategies can help: Stay or Leave? Every Relationship’s Million Dollar Question

Answering simple research-based questions can help assess a relationship: 15 Questions to Help Decide if a Relationship Has a Future

Knowing how your partner’s brain works is key to relationship happiness: The Secret to Improving Your Relationship

It has taken us by surprise, but in our current situation, when everyone has more of a voice and more impact on the public than ever before, it suddenly matters. Read more here: Tools for modern citizens

Excellent overview of stoic thinking. Highly recommended for those who think that being a Stoic simply means having a stiff upper lip. Source: #382. Stoicism 101 | Nancy Sherman — Ten Percent Happier

Learn to live in the ‘messy gray’. Source: Holding Two Thoughts at the Same Time Is Hard and Important

Children born today will live through seven times more heatwaves, twice the wildfires, and three times the droughts, river floods and crop failures: People under 40 will experience ‘unprecedented life’ of climate change disasters, study says

You can find some thoughts on relieving the anxiety the thought causes here: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/jay-michaelson-384

Bill Maher nails it (Gen Z) here…

“There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being. There is a cry deeper than all sound whose serrated edges cut the heart as we break open to the place inside which is unbreakable and whole, while learning to sing.” Source: Poems by Rashani — Rashani

6 strategies to get your worrying under control including ‘If you really want to take control of those worries and you’re finding that the above strategies don’t work, allow yourself to worry for a certain time period every day. Spend that time writing about all your worries in that notebook, and accept that when the time is up, the worrying will have to stop. That way, you will get them out of your head and onto paper, which is very effective in clearing your head.’ Source: How to Stop Worrying About Things You Can’t Change

There are as many nights as there are days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness – Carl Jung

Source: Herding Cats: Quote of the Day

TV character Ted Lasso embodies what we need right now: goodness. In a world of antiheroes, says television critic Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, he just wants to make us better people: Hero for Our Time